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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:55:48 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Eric MASSON <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com Megahertz LAN card?
Message-ID:  <19990715225548.38148@mojave.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <378D0AEB.60DD4E0A@kisoft-services.com>; from Eric MASSON on Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:10:51AM %2B0200
References:  <19990711043648.63A7214CD1@hub.freebsd.org> <19990711153853.A89704@sr.se> <19990713164017.N21403@freebie.lemis.com> <378D0AEB.60DD4E0A@kisoft-services.com>

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On Thursday, 15 July 1999 at  0:10:51 +0200, Eric MASSON wrote:
> Greg Lehey a écrit :
>>
>> On Sunday, 11 July 1999 at 15:38:53 +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:37:03PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I've been programming on Unix for years, and I'm finally installing my own
>>>> FreeBSD system (my first).  I've got a laptop (HP Omnibook XE2), and it uses
>>>> the 3Com Megahertz LAN card (3CCFE574BT).  I haven't been able to get this to
>>>> work, though.
>>>>
>>>> Is it supported?  If so, can anyone give me tips on how to set it up?
>>>
>>> Try looking at the PAO project! It's located at
>>> http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/
>>
>> I don't think this will work either.  If I understand the part number
>> correctly, it's a CardBus card, and neither PAO nor the current
>> releases support it.  The newconfig project does, though.  Check out
>> http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/newconfig/ for further details, and note
>> that it's still experimental.
>
> 3CCFE574BT, just as 3CCFEM556B exists both in Pccard or Cardbus version,
> it's written on it just like Port-Salut (Sorry about this bad pun
> extract of a french TV ad upon Port Salut cheese ;-)).

Well, you might describe the ad :-)

> I found support for both cards in linux-pcmcia3.0.12 package. I have
> the sources but no knowledge about porting it to FBSD. 3C574 support
> is a patch upon 3C509 driver.

Maybe somebody on the -mobile list would be interested in doing it.
We had another query lately, but I don't have the reference handy.
I'm moving this to the -mobile list, and maybe we can get something
done.

Greg
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